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[Verse]

Well my name's

 John Lee Pett

imore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before

You hardly eve

r saw Grandadd

y down here
He only came to town about twice a year

He'd buy a hun

dred pounds of

 yeast and som

e copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
             
Now the revenu

              
e man wanted G

         
randaddy bad

He headed up t

he holler with

 everything he

 had
             
It's before my

             
 time but I've

        
 been told

He never came 

back from Copp

erhead Road

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[Verse]

Now Daddy ran 

the whiskey in

 a big block D

odge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge

Johnson County

 Sheriff paint

ed on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside

Well him and m

y uncle tore t

hat engine dow

n
I still remember that rumblin' sound
             
Well the sheri

              
ff came around

             
 in the middle

          
 of the night

Heard mama cry

in', knew some

thing wasn't r

ight
             
He was headed 

              
down to Knoxvi

              
lle with the w

       
eekly load
 ( 
You could smel

l the whiskey 

burnin' down C

opperhead Road

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I volunteered 

for the Army o

n my birthday
They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway

I done two tou

rs of duty in 

Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan

I take the see

d from Colombi

a and Mexico
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
             
Well the D.E.A

             
.'s got a chop

            
per in the air

I wake up scre

aming like I'm

 back over the

re
             
I learned a th

              
ing or two fro

             
m ol' Charlie 

           
don't you know

You better sta

y away from Co

pperhead Road

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